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I have always wanted to know, with any book or film that I have really enjoyed, what happens next? What happened to that character who appeared in chapter six for a few pages and then went off somewhere else? If there was a banquet what would they have eaten? And so on. In effect I have always made up my own stories to cover these questions - I have always composed fan-fic. But I haven't always written it down and, sometimes, it has seemed to me that actually doing so is too much like hard work.
I commented when I posted the chapter of Brotherhood last week, that I realised why the ‘Return of the Key-verse’ stories are such a delight to write as I worked out the scene between Orophin (an elf) and a middle-aged lady of the court.
I realised that I like to write almost as if the point of view characters are social anthropologists… and with these stories I am always able to write from an outsider’s point of view. I can consider how they look to those who don’t really know exactly what is going on and both the character and I can ask questions that an insider wouldn’t need to ask. To me the everyday is fascinating, and occasionally very funny, when seen by an outsider. ( if you are interested, click here! )
The possibilities are still fairly endless. I have a feeling that, even if no-one were to read them (and very few people here seem to – but they are still read by a few hundred over at Twisting the Hellmouth), I would tell these stories to myself anyway.
When I talked about this to S2C he said he thought that many people enjoy writing cross-over stories to look at the familiar through new eyes. Works for me, anyway!
I commented when I posted the chapter of Brotherhood last week, that I realised why the ‘Return of the Key-verse’ stories are such a delight to write as I worked out the scene between Orophin (an elf) and a middle-aged lady of the court.
I realised that I like to write almost as if the point of view characters are social anthropologists… and with these stories I am always able to write from an outsider’s point of view. I can consider how they look to those who don’t really know exactly what is going on and both the character and I can ask questions that an insider wouldn’t need to ask. To me the everyday is fascinating, and occasionally very funny, when seen by an outsider. ( if you are interested, click here! )
The possibilities are still fairly endless. I have a feeling that, even if no-one were to read them (and very few people here seem to – but they are still read by a few hundred over at Twisting the Hellmouth), I would tell these stories to myself anyway.
When I talked about this to S2C he said he thought that many people enjoy writing cross-over stories to look at the familiar through new eyes. Works for me, anyway!
